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Pretentious

The most ironic word in the history of language.
Asshole 1: "So prior to meeting you at this location, I was involved in an altercation of the sexual kind with my girlfriend, it was tremendously refreshing and pleasing to certain glands within my physical being."
Asshole 2: "You're being pretentious"
Asshole 3: "Pot and kettle"
by Thedefineguy1 January 5, 2012
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Pretentious

To be pretentious is to make a claim or put on an act to:

A) Fit into a group.

B) Appear "better" than you are or than others.

Pretentious people often fit into 2 groups:

i) Stupid pretentious people who no nothing of the subject they are acting pretentious about.

ii) Clever pretentious people who know about the subject they are acting pretentious about but think this makes them better.
a) Look I have the same boots as you now! That makes me a true Punk/Goth/Rocker/insert generic group name.

b) You didn't like my poem? Well you probably didn't understand it. It was very deep.

i) I am a goth I love HIM.

ii) I have a degree in Philosophy...I therefore know a little more about theology than you could.

Another Example: My definition of "pretentious" is much better than the others on this site because I have an A in English.

Pretentious people often have no sense of humour and never laugh at themselves.
by Mike December 28, 2005
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pretendies

Slang for mid-grade pot. Short for "pretend kind" buds. Usually a kind strain but poorly grown or accidently allowed to germinate from male plants. Still better than schwag, but not as good as kind. Going rates in Boulder, CO..

kind bud...$50 per 1/8th ounce. Very nice. No seeds. Smells/tastes great. 1-3 hits should do you. See Northern Lights.

Pretendies...$100 per ounce. Usually green and fluffy. Perhaps some seeds. Smells/tastes good. May need 2-5 hits for nice groove. Sometimes called beesters.

Schwag...$60 per ounce. Can be dark green or brown. Lots of seeds. Sometimes formed in brick squares. Smells/tastes earthy or like dirt. Will need 4+ hits to get high. Sometimes only produces headache.
Dude, I can't get any kind buds. How 'bout we buy some pretendies?
by Purple Bong December 18, 2005
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pretentious

Definitely two meanings, and they really depend on the attitudes of the user, and what the user thinks is fake or real. So:

A) "Pretentious" can be a useful phrase to describe something that is fake or pretend, or somebody who is pretending in order to conform. Sometimes it is still used that way.

B) Its meaning has also become completely the opposite. In the English-speaking world, "pretentious" has become a catch-all phrase to criticize anything or anyone that is vaguely heartfelt, intellectual, earnest, sincere, artistic, unconventional, nonconformist, non-commercial, or not on TV, on Youtube or in the supermarket.
Take your pick:

A) The blonde in American Beauty, Angela Hayes, lied about having lost her virginity and being sex-mad. In fact, she was an insecure virgin, and worried about what people would think of her. So she pretended to be a slut. She was pretentious.

B) The lonely boy in American Beauty, Ricky Fitts, who thought the plastic bag in the wind was beautiful couldn't really have thought that, he just wanted to be different from other people, and was pretending to be deep. He was pretentious.
by khcvb June 8, 2010
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pretendica

something that looks like the real deal, but is actually rather less than that just average.

Originally started as marijuana slang, it referred to weed that looked like the mack daddy, but was actually only middies. So the "pretendica" has now become generally thus, something that looks great, but is actually only okay, so-so, average at best.

something that has the capacity of pretending or is in the act of pretending or faking it.

pretending, faking, fronting.
He said that club was the diesel, but it was really kind of pretendica.

The girl thought that she had a hot ride, but it was total pretendica.

"Was it the shit, man?" -"Naw, it was pretendica."

or

"It was some scenester shit, yo. Total pretendica."
by JakeinthedirtyD January 21, 2008
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Pretentious

attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed
eg. Tom-Hey isn't that Megan an arrogant bitch, Steve-Yeah mate, needs to take her head out of her own arse. Tom-Yeah how pretentious
by TommyDLW November 7, 2012
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pretentious twat waffle

A deuschy, annoying, pretentious ass hole who is full of himself and thinks his shit doesn't stink. His natural habitat is someplace "you've probably never heard of" He may look and smell like a hipster but in reality he just uses that as a ploy. Don't trust him. He also is a know-it-all who womanizes (hot) females by taking them out on expensive dates for 3-4 months, telling them how awesome they are, then hooks up with them and never calls them again, but can still be sighted staring at their magnificent hineys.
Baldwin Bonilla is a pretentious twat waffle, especially when he wears the cat pants.
by word woman July 24, 2014
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